Updated: BeeJiveIM, AIM, and IM+ -- Push Apps Now in iTunes Store!

Pinch yourself. You're not dreaming. It took longer than we'd hoped, but push IM apps are finally starting to appear in the iTunes App Store.

BeeJiveIM [$9.99 - iTunes link] with Push and AIM [$2.99 - iTunes link] are the first out of the goat, and hopefully more will follow.

Update: IM+ with push notification for IM, Skype, and Twitter is also now live in the App Store.

If you get your push on, tell us how it works for you, and what if any tweaks you make to the push settings to control your level of interruption. And if you notice more push apps going live, let us know!

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Updated: BeeJiveIM, AIM, and IM+ -- Push Apps Now in iTunes Store!

AIM Free Edition is also Push enabled... seems a little strange. It has some throttling, and even worse. If I receive 3 Push Notifications, then I open AIM, I get 3 instant AIM sounds playing... very annoying.

Beejive crashed constantly. I deleted and reinstalled and it seems to have fixed the issue. Gotta admit, love the push. I wonder how annoying it will get after you are constantly logged in and you start getting unlimited IM messages. Just wondering!

Is anyone else having the problem with the app store where it will say you have X many updates but when you go into the app store it says everything is up to date? Currently my badge says 10, but when I go in to the updates section it says all are upto date. Which, I know is not true. This is something I've only noticed since 3.0

you can always go into settings and tap on notifications, click on beejive and turn alerts off.. so you wont get the pop up, but the badge and sound will still alert u that you have a msg.. just like when an email fetch, u get the badge and sound.

I have AOL free version and gave it a good set of tests between computers and other iPhones. So far, a max of maybe 3 seconds day between send and the arrival of the notification. Overall, two thumbs up for Apple.

Beejive has a bug: don't assign any of your contacts from the IM networks with your phone contacts, Beejive crashes and you are not able to view the person's card (but can still chat).
Push seems to be working flawlessly, even tried locked under 3G and the messages were being delivered.
I created a new WLM address just for this use, I don't want everybody in my list to reach me 24h.

It's awesome that push has gone live.
Rene are you posting from your iPhone?
I'll tell you this I don't ever want to be the first one out the "goat"
I don't want to even be in the goat.
No but seriously. Being as it took so long I bet Apple gets real selective with allowing the number of push apps. I just don't think Apple has the bandwith to follow through 100% or it would started a year ago as promised. Just my thoughts.

@Landon: for me:
1. Update Beejive to 3.0/Install it from the App Store
2. Run it
3. Accept the request to use push notifications
And that's everyting, just quit the app without logging out and you'll receive the notifications.

I got my iPhone 3GS today and the push for beejive is INSTANT! And the app opens so quickly that it doesn't even feel like i'm closing applications. One thing I might ask for is a locked landscape mode for beejive... or just landscape buddy lists (kind of odd that they don't have this enabled). You have to go into your chat, flip it to landscape, and then flip back out for your buddy lists to be in landscape. And I wish that when you opened the app it went right into the conversation you were received the IM in... less clicks. But the push works great :)

I have something strange happening with push on Beejive. I would get the notifications from one of my friends flawlessly, but the other friend I don't get any notifications! It seems to be account specific....
Any ideas?

Have sent and recieved SMS. Sent a pic and waiting for a reply. Push works...FAST! Waiting for a picture to be sent. My friend had to reply to a text first saying he could recieve these kinds of messages from me from now one. Is that normal? Still not sure how this works. Is this just iChat on the phone with PUSH? I wonder if they see my name like in a normal SMS or a phone number. Wish I new more people with BeeJive other than my wife who is sleeping. Contemplating waking her up, but think it might be wise to let her sleep! Yikes!

Phonemilk,
You can send pictures. In the chat tap on the persons name and a dropdown menu will slide out, letting you send pics, voice memo (recorded from in-app), email the conversation aaand, I forgot the last thing. But the functionality is there.

So excited about the Beejive update! But I can't log in... just get the spinning wheel endlessly. Interested that it mostly seemed to be working for commenters here... hoping bugs get ironed out quick, otherwise it's useless!

AIM (free) is working well for me as well. However, on the 1st Gen iPhone it's really slow. The keyboard locks up and delays when there is a lot of background activity, like receiving messages. Are people having a better experience on the 3G or 3GS? I bet the speed makes a difference. The fact that you get the push sounds and then log in to the app and get them again is kinda annoying, but I understand what the reason is for that. The app can download the messages until its ran so it sees that there are "new" messages still.. whatever.. I'm loving it and considering lowering my text plan now!

I was skeptical on paying the money for BeeJive as well. In anticipation for PNS and because they had a sale, I bought it last week for $10. It logs in so much faster than the other guys, it was definitely worth it and now there is push too! I have the AP app as well but does anyone else have other push apps they like?

@Wesley
really, because I've been using palringo for a long time and it does everything I could possibly want and more.
Plus I heard beejive doesn't even IM pictures. That's pathetic when you are PAYING for the app. Palringo does that for free.

@ Adam. Beejive does send pictures in addition to voice memos and sounds. Also, the next version will give you the ability to send videos as well. of course, this will only work with the 3GS. Palringo can't really compare.

Performance for me has been dicey at best. Granted, before push I didn't use any chat apps (why would you?), and I just downloaded Beejive on Sunday, but so far I've seen my push sounds not working, chats that Beejive is telling me failed actually reach my recipient, Beejive stealing my web sessions (Facebook), and my buddy list not being up to date.
Like I said, I'm new to Beejive, so maybe that's just the way it works, and I must also add that I'm doing my testing in a 1 to 2 bar area @ my desk, so my test conditions may not be ideal.

I am dealing with a issue using AIM with PNS and AIM on PC. It works fine when using the iPhone, but if I happen to be at my computer using AIM, the App doesn't know it and continues to send notifications as I receive responses on my PC! AIM doesn't see that I am signed on in two locations, either. What's the work-around for this? Do I have to go into my settings and disable PNS each time I happen to be on my computer?
I also used IM Fowarding prior to this and that worked fine, automatically determining if I was logged on my PC versus near my phone...PNS is redundant in this instance and less intuitive...am I missing something??

I love it. I'm gonna try with alerts on and off. I heard they didn't change PNS from how the SMS alerts are.
With the alerts on , I think it only shows the recent Alert from that application. I guess theoretically , if I get 20 PNS from AIM I won't have to exit through 20 alerts.
I'm still gonna see though.

@Moe Palringo does all of that... >_>
Except for send videos which of course neither does Beejive yet.
And Palringo is a great program, it is very stable, keeps you logged in when you go to other apps, allows for group chats.. Why do you people think beejive is so amazing? I think it sucks.

I don't know what's going on with Beejive. I've been getting a lot of unresponsiveness in the app (I actually think this is server side) and several crashes. I've also had several premature disconnections. Definitely not the $15 app I paid for. Here's to hoping that they get on these problems quick and get them fixed.

i used beejive and i love it, but for soem reason i cannot send or recieved any pics or sounds messages thru beejive, whixh is anyone. does anyone knows how to fix that? i have already uninstalled and installed and it didnt work.